• Mittens_meow@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    NDIS application is starting. My doc says it’s really difficult to get approved but we will try anyway. I’m still working full time so dsp isn’t a thing and I want to keep working and feel like a normal person. Just need some help and ideally work to stop forcing mandatory office days and actually be inclusive instead of just pretending to. Sucks being bedridden so much.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    16 days ago

    The bathroom has now been sorted (it is nice having everything off the bench top so I can clean easily), I have put the bins out and I even cleaned the rangehood today. Now I just have to find the energy from somewhere to cook my burger for dinner.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    Trying to prod the instances along… posted a ‘what’s free this month in Melbourne’ but deleted it for obvious reasons. I’ll wait a day for it to update for September and post again.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    I want what ever is in the coffee at the metro control center. The “goooodmorning everyone!” Was exceptionally singsong and chipper this morning. Gale, it’s not even 7am. Love the enthusiasm but gonna need you to dial it back from a 12 to a 6 or a 7 max.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
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      17 days ago

      Is there still that excessively cheerful guy on the Cragieburn line who gives weather reports & recipes?

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        17 days ago

        Nah this is an announcer or Pakey/Cranbourne. She’s our usual one, usually a bit curt if anything. Dunno if someone complained but it’s just odd now.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Used my mouth guard last night, and chewed the ever loving shit out of it. So I have a headache still, taken some ibuprofen.

    Also seem to have caught a cold? So avoiding class today. Annoying, but I should be able to catch up on my prac next week.

    What a load of poop

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      17 days ago

      Do you typically suffer from hayfever?

      I’ve had the runny nose over the last few days due to the winds and weather.

      Could be just that?

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    I went to a job interview yesterday. It finished at 4 and I didn’t get home until 6. In that time my girlfriend and mother in law picked up the kids from childcare.

    They let the kids be unrestrained in the car park, so one of my boys decides to run off. The MIL is chasing him, hysterical. She has a bad knee so she can’t run. My girlfriend was putting the other boy in the car so she couldn’t respond straight away. God, what if something happened.

    I usually handle pickup because I work from home, and this had never happened to me. I know we’d make things work if I need to fund another job but I still just don’t know what we’ll do if things don’t work out today.

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
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      17 days ago

      Car parks are scary places with kids. Having my own changed the way I traverse carparks forever. Thankfully everything was okay, lessons were hopefully learned and systems put into place for next time.

      • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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        17 days ago

        I remember running across the road (a quiet street) of my kindergarten as a four or five year old. I got scolded quite harshly and felt incredibly guilty.

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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        17 days ago

        The boys know to stop at a road when crossing. I think we’ll need to teach them carparks count as the road

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    17 days ago

    Shout out to SES, tree crews, powerline workers and everyone else who was hammered by the storms yesterday and are continuing the cleanup today. With special thanks to the cop directing traffic on Burwood Hwy/Springvale Rd in peak hour yesterday. Trying to control that mant cars must be a nightmare!

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Seems we have lift off. There’s a bunch of dudes here for the cameras and a bunch of other dudes here for the door frames. Because of that, I’ve been ejected from my spare room which I use as a kinda office. Today’s also the only weekday I don’t have anything happening (besides 1 phone call “anytime between 9am and 2pm”), so I was hoping to get some study done. A bit hard to concentrate when they’re going wild with the power saws.

    The “case management practitioner supervisor” (I don’t know what it is, but I absolutely hate that title) is here (the tradies have to be supervised when they’re inside), so she ejected me from the other office to go do phone calls. So I’m just sort of floating around trying to find somewhere chill now

    E: looks like I was correct about the security cameras. It’s a proper corporate style system. Featuring a locked cabinet with a UPS and a plexiglass shield over the monitor. Not a huge fan of that, I most certainly would not be having anything like that in my house, once I move. Feels kind of unhomely and a bit business or corporation like, but I guess it stops inside jobs, so that’s nice I suppose

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    Tackling jasmine today. It has moved very early this year.

    To those hoping to plant jasmine, just so you know over time it’s arguably worse than bamboo I don’t care how good it looks or smells. It smothers everything in its path like the blob.

    Pretty but an absolute PITA have to get up there to tease it off. :(